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There is a legend that there was once a large lake where the in opens today. But one day, on the advice of a mountain gnome, a charcoal burner set out to penetrate deep into the earth, where a was guarding a great treasure.
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Cipactli is a crocodile-like creature whose dead body was used to shape the sky and the earth. (Source: The Fifth Sun: Aztec gods, Aztec World by Burr Cartwright Brundage).

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The Hippogriff was a winged horse that had the claws and head of an eagle. It was an elusive creature that had the ability to fly at very high altitudes for very long distances. The hippogriff was the only known relative to the Griffin.

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Dragons also feature prominently in alchemical prints.

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The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature said to inhabit the forest of Pine Barrens in South Jersey. It is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations.


🎨Teratophoneus

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According to Welsh lore Llyn Cowlyd had three mythical beasts associated with it; the water horse, the water bull and the Owl of Cowlyd. https://t.co/0lcAWKmhK8

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To relieve the peasants from the the Duke of made them built a huge, strong tower at the limits of the swamps. Fearless knights hid there, and a stout bull tied to a chain with barbs was presented as a bait. Soon the winged Lindworm
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In Batak star lore of North Sumatra, Orion constellation is called Hala Na Godang; a dragon so big its head reaches the sky and its tail the earth, and the stars of Orion's Belt represent its three giant eggs. 1/3


📷: Rogelio B. Andreo

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A grew up in the swamp around the beautiful lake near in and fattened itself on horses. When nothing was left to devour, this mighty creature ate himself through a rockslide, leaving a gorge, where his bite marks still can be seen. https://t.co/Qydkyh5v8u

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Left to herself, the serpent now began
To change; her elfin blood in madness ran.
—John Keats, Lamia.
In Greek mythology Lamia is a predatory monster with a serpent’s body and the head and breasts of a woman.

🎨Isobel Lilian Gloag, The Kiss of the Enchantress.

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In Ferdowsi's one of the adventures of the Persian mythological hero Rustam is his defeat of a dragon with the help of his faithful horse, Rakhsh.

Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Folio Society, 2009.* Watercolour, 280 × 200 mm.
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GRIFFIN🦁🦅
..of Greek Mythology, one theory, is that it was based on the Protocetatops, a pig sized dinosaur, half lion, half eagle, that guarded the gold of kings..a powerful, and majestic beast..#fairytaleflash

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PEGASUS🐎
..the divine winged horse, offspring of Medusa and Poseidon, born from Medusa's blood, after she was beheaded by Perseus, a free spirit, the universal symbol of liberty..#fairytaleflash

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The Victorian artist, John Anster Fitzgerald, liked to imagine magical ideas —like what a fairy feast might look like? Here’s his ‘The Fairies’ Banquet’ of 1859

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This week’s Fairy Tale Tuesday explores feasting: 🫖🍰

It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.
—Lewis Carroll

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Hi 👋🏻

I am Maria, an illustrator who loves to work on whimsical and meaningful stories!✨🦋 ✨ 🦋

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Concept art by Mary Blair (1911-1978) for Disney's Cinderella (1950) film, which was in development from 1922, hence all the versions of this magical transformation scene

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Cinderella’s fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage again & again & again…

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"She took off her sash, and tied one end round the butterfly; the other end she fastened to the leaf, so that now it glided along with her faster than ever."

Illustration by J.M. Szancer from Thumbelina

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In Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess and the Pea, a prince is looking for a bride and a rain-soaked girl shows up claiming to be a princess. To test her, the prince's mother places a single pea beneath 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown beds.

🎨 Edmund Dulac.

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